16th April 2010, 12:02 PM
Luckily I managed to pretty much avoid all that by being the right age/experience at the time so I was one of those annoying people who always got a 'waiver' for the supervisor jobs - was never short of work in CP days and they were all 6 and 12 month contracts even where there was only 2 weeks-worth of archaeology
I'm afraid when I'm trying to have a quiet pint and someone asks "what do you do for a living" I tend to say I work for a construction industry sub-contractor anyway - 'snot lying, after all, and it always seems to kill off any follow-up questions that might involve putting the brain in gear.....in an emergency, after decades hanging around on building sites, I can get pretty technical on civil engineering....
I'm afraid when I'm trying to have a quiet pint and someone asks "what do you do for a living" I tend to say I work for a construction industry sub-contractor anyway - 'snot lying, after all, and it always seems to kill off any follow-up questions that might involve putting the brain in gear.....in an emergency, after decades hanging around on building sites, I can get pretty technical on civil engineering....